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I picked it up while waiting for someone in Borders and I couldn't put it down again. It's witty as hell - the best pop star autobiography I've come across and the most generally engaging thing I've read in bloody ages.

Feel like a bit of a tit reading it on the bus though. It's not exactly Chekhov.

i took it on a trip to miami -- it was perfect beach reading, and i keep laughing out loud every few pages. one of my favorite passages was about when blur met radiohead for the first time. alex didn't have much to say besides, "they didn't drink much."

I liked some of the tales in there, especially of the idiocy in the Britpop days and the Damon tales. But did have to laugh when he started saying something along the lines of "I was surrounded by supermodels, loads of parties, etc. It may have seemed to outsiders it was the greatest time anyone could have, but it was actually the lowest point of my life." Just a bit too cliche.

Also, although Keith Allen does normally come across as a bit of a twat, he did seem quite funny in the book.